The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-04-21

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| Thursday, April Iith.
twenty-five canning establishments have
begun business since 1st January last in
the South. Dakota protects her Su-
preme Court Judges in the railroad pass
business by giving them enough extra to
pay their travelling expenses WASH
ington Government clerks have started an
| @s9raneeS com pAny of their gtn The
lipls 3lo Mi.
uumef mArrf0S. THIS Starts man with
$5, 600. All of the 5000 union carpen-
ters IN Chicago are Idle; six strikers have
been arrested for interfering with non
union men. The drought in Texas has
dence OF stockmen and farmers fully re-
stored Terrible prairie fires are reported
IN Nebraska and Kansas: twelve lives are
known to be lost and tie destruction of
| property is very great. 5. B. Chitten-
den, of Brooklyn, will build a 500, 900
library for Yale. Mr. DeLeon, Secretary
of the National Drill to be held in Wash
ington has stated the ruling of the Board
OF Management to lie that colorcd COM
panles regularly organized as National
Guards, which applied before the first of
April, would have their applications con-
sldered without discrimination. The only
colored companies which applied were one
from the District of Columbia and two of
the regularly organized troops in Virginia.
Del.eon says he has also stated that there
would be no social equality except such as
the soldiers might want. Virginia colored
troops Nlll form part of their State con
tlngent. under command of Brig Gen'l.
Anderson of the First Virginia Volunteers.
only three companies-the Montgomery
True Blues and Grays, and the Atlanta
kifes-have decided not to participate in
the drill. Two companies in Texas, two
In Mississippi, and one in North Carolina,
made inquiries but have not announced
their withdrawal
Friday, April 18th.
The L. S. Treasury refused to receive a
number of notes sent for redemption
which had a hole punched in them bv the
senders or the express company Sew
eral persons were killed and a number of
others injured in a railroad accident near
Parkersburg, W. Va Longshoremen
IN Williamsburg, \. Y, struck for union
wages. Knights of Labor at Pittsburg,
Pa, have formed National Assembly of
iron and steel workers Senator Beck
thinks Cleveland and Allison will be the
Presidential candidates of the two great
parties in 1888 The late t decision of
the Kansas Supreme Court is that a wo-
man may retain her own name when she
marrles. Some easily be2uiled negroes
from this State and Virgin numbering
| between one and two hut lred-are in
New Jersey and are very anxious to get
back to "Norf Caliny" nd "Dle Virginny'
| Saturday. pril 18th.
| The satest from Rev Dr.. j. G. Arm
strong is, that he and his fe are receiy-
ing instructions from Father Kelley pre-
paratory to their recepj ion into the
| Catholic church, at Atlanta, Ga. Col
umba College, New York, conferred The
degree of l.. L. d. on Secretary Manning
and Geo. VIM. Curtis " Nine Howe. the
woman banker of Boston, Is missing as is
also $50, 900 deposited in her bank by CON
fiding women. This is not the first time
IS.
-, The Inter State Commission has de-
| cided that there is nothing in the law to
prohibit railroads from granting reduced
rates to organizations and individuals
| coming to the National Drill and the dedi-
cation of the Garfield statue a. Washing
| ton next month.
Sunday, April nth.
/ Gen. Lawton, of Georgia has been ap-
| pointed Minister to Austria. Jim Bates,
a notorious desperate, was killed by Of
! ficers in the mountains near Chattanooga.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion heard arguments yesterday on the
long and short haul clause; an order was
granted extending to other roads the privi-
| lege given to the Southern Railway and
! Steamship Association The cotton crop
in sight is 6, 1876, l99 bales Great de-
monstrations have been made in BROOKLYN
and Washington in protest against Tory
oppression of Ireland Gen. Nathaniel
Green, the greatest soldier Of the Revolu-
ton after Washington, is TO have d monu-
ment at the Federal Capital after the
elapse of hundred years He died in
1884, and was borne in Rhode Island
Monday, April 18th.
! The New York Star states that Billy
| Maloney has made a writes. confession
that will tell about the great Broadway
steal. 1t is thought it will implicate big
ger men than every day Alderman The
North River for q thousand feet above
Sixty-sixth street. New York, was literally
on fire for several hours yesterday morn
ing, owing to pipe line of the Standard
Oil Company having broken und,r the
water and allowed floods Of nnrefined
petroleum., estimated at between COG, 900
and 800, 600 gallons, to escape to the sur
face. This got on fire in some way caus-
ing one Of the most unique confagrations
known in this city. 1t destroyed "a large
freight house, railway trucks and caused
a loss of 5000, 000 Chief Justice Cart
ter, of the Supreme Court os the District
of Columbia, is dead The Pope has de-
cided the question of the Knights of Labor
in favor of the organization. He further
decides that in Canada, where mandam-
} ant has been issued against the Knights,
members Of the order Will receive absolu-
ton on promise Of obedience to future de-
cisions of the Holy Lee. If Knights iden-
tify themselves with the theories now be-
ing disseminated by certain agitators, this
decision will be revoked
Tuesday, April 10Th.
The steamer Benefactor from Will
mington to New York, picked up boat
containing the captain and some of the
crew OF schooner burned off Hatteras on
the 10th. Rev. DR.. Meredith, of Boston,
is to succeed Mr. Beecher at the Brooklyn
. church. The Pope has decided the ques-
ton of the KNIGHTS of Labor in favor of